"She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become insubstantial in the face of the fiction she's been absorbed in."

After You'd Gone - Maggie O'Farrell

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

#AMonthofFaves : Year in Books Timeline

And I'm back with #AMonthofFaves stuff today. Bookish timelines are the order of the day today, so here's a brief look at my year in books...

January - Started the year with not a bang, DNFing two
historical fiction titles that definitely didn't live up to
their 2013 predecessors. While I'm failing to actually read
any books, I become the unwitting poster child for the Friends
of the Library book sale when a picture of me appears in the local newspaper clutching a stack of my new (used) acquisitions. I am the picture of bookish irony. Literally.

February - The month when I was ready for summer to come. I
blame Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagen and her very
convincing Milwaukee summer.

Is it summer yet?

March - Doesn't look like the month I read the least, but
probably is. I turned 30 and changed jobs. I was busy eating
a cake every week and discovering that lunch break reading was a thing in my past, leaving little time for the mediocre reading
that marked this month.

April - My book group ruined Ender's Game (which I finally
read!) for me with, like, all their intelligent ethical qualms
about Ender's character. D'oh.

May - This is the month I remember that I have a blog and start
posting on it which some regularity again. I attempted my
first Bout of Books leading to an excellent five book month.

Blogging, I does it.

June - It takes until June for me to read a book I know will
end up on my top ten for the year. I think I'll keep the title
under wraps until next week, though. ;-)

July - My records say I only read one book. My brain knows I
was digging my way through John Irving's substantially long and
dense The Cider House Rules (which I finally read!).

August - Bout of Books take two on the year results in an even
bigger reading month than May. I finally start reading the
Divergent series after years of meaning to.

September - I read the best YA book I read this year. Nope,
not telling til next week.

Nope, really not telling. Yet.

October - Marks something else I never do - read a second book
by an author I'd read earlier in the year that's not part of
series. Maybe I'll eventually even get around to reviewing it.

November - Is when I start reading Christmas books, for once
achieving the aim of actually reading Christmas books during
the holiday season.

December - I trade reading a lot for blogging way more dependably than usual. I imagine I
can do it all and still finish a few more books this month even
while writing 70% more posts than usual (and forget all that extra commenting!). Endeavor seems destined for failure on one front or another... To be determined.

8 comments:

Now dying to know what your. If reveal from June is! I've never participated in Bout of Books; though it looks like fun, one can only do so many activities, right? Blogging and reading, or vice versa, take up a lot of time. I'm glad that you put your year according go month as I did. That seems the easiest way to tackle a summary of a year's worth of reading!

OK - I need to check out this Bout of Books Readathon...this is the second time I've seen it in a timeline post. And - I absolutely love John Irving...although Cider House isn't one of my favorites of his.

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